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Featured Article: Connection and Extension: Living and Learning in a Small Boarding School
In this issue:
• Connection and Extension: Living and Learning in a Small Boarding School
• The Admission Process: Applying on Short Notice
• Private School News
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Connection and Extension: Living and Learning in a Small Boarding School
“Small boarding schools?” Prospective boarding school parents might think, “Every school that we’ve looked at is smaller than the public school our child currently attends.”
Families face the obvious questions of school types in their evaluations of boarding school options for the student- single sex, coeducational, structured, athletic. But even within the independent school world, small boarding schools thrive as a unique genre presenting students and families with challenges and opportunities that one finds only in an an inclusive, communal environment.
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The Admission Process: Applying on Short Notice
Independent schools may not have been considered when this school year began, but times change- and needs change with them- so that by spring and summer you may be thinking about a move. Moving, family death or illness, a need for a more personal or structured academic environment - one, all, or another perspective or concern can lead to considering a move into a boarding or independent day school in the spring.
If you are considering such a move, relax. The first thing to keep in mind is that you will have options. You are not alone nor the first work through this process.
While it is true that the most selective schools are full and have only waiting lists at this time, many good schools still have openings and, as a result, they pursue active admission programs throughout the summer.
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Private School News
From The Boston Globe (5/30/04)
At free Baltimore academy, urban boys learn to hope
From CITIZEN-TIMES.com (5/28/04)
Student
values support, social skills learned at Asheville boarding
school
Darrow School
Westover School
Wasatch Academy
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